It's Not the Car
By Sam Smith, Ross Bentley, Jeff Braun
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Episodes: 22
Description
It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people, speed, and how we all work under pressure.
Short version: We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.
Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a championship-winning race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. Together, we unpack the emotion at the heart of the machine.
We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel.
New episodes on Tuesdays!
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337 MPH in 3.7 seconds — (GUEST: NHRA Top Fuel Driver Clay Millican)
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May 21, 2024 |
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Mears and My Feet”
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May 20, 2024 |
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Why Are So Many Racing Movies Terrible?
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May 14, 2024 |
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Wall Drug”
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May 13, 2024 |
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How Roger and Mario Broke the Indy 500 — (Penske “Beast” V-8, 1994)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Do Car Magazines Have Secrets?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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The Dan Gurney Fan-Service Episode
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Ferrari Story You Didn’t Know You Needed
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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How to Be a Rookie at the Indy 500
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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For Love of the Game — (Villeneuve 1979 US GP Wet Quali)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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The World’s Most Charming Race Track
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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How Do Wind Tunnels Work?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Listener Q&A: Can the Data Lie?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Can You Have Too Much Power? — (Donohue 1970s Porsche Can-Am)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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What You and Max Verstappen Have in Common
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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When Car Magazines Test Race Cars
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Listener Q&A: Rain Driving and You
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Ten Hours, 1000 Miles, and 170 MPH — (Moss 1955 Mille Win)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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When is a Driving Sim Worth Millions?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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At the Wheel in a McLaren F1 GTR
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Unpacking the 24 Hours of Le Mans
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The Indy 500 is Harder Than You Think — (Rossi 2016 Win)
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Jan 09, 2024 |